id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_vj4bkj72ujcpxn7y33oo725rqm Angela Potochnik Scientific Explanation: Putting Communication First 2016 21 .pdf application/pdf 5252 300 43 ontological focus is traditional for philosophical accounts of scientific explanation. explanations must depict dependence relations: what, out in the world, bears a good explanation depends on both the explainer and the audience for the an ontic sense, depends on the explainer and the audience. explanation is the nature of the explanatory dependence relations (Levy, draft). This way of accommodating the audience's influence on scientific explanations is represent different dependence relations, each responsible for the same phenomenon. the audience's interests, the explanation misleadingly suggests a form of dependence to be whatever dependence relation (relevant to explanation-seekers' interests) is explain selective food-sharing, but not when the audience's interests make it so that part of the ontic explanation for selective food-sharing in vampire bats? For scientific explanations, the audience's influence on what is explanatory is largely dependence relations, thereby influencing the ontic explanation in the way I sketched explanation featuring different dependence relations. ./cache/work_vj4bkj72ujcpxn7y33oo725rqm.pdf ./txt/work_vj4bkj72ujcpxn7y33oo725rqm.txt